The AdSP of Mare Adriatico Settentrionale has joined the association of the euro-Mediterranean ports MEDPorts



The Authority of Harbour System of the Northern Adriatic, the agency that administers the ports of Venice and Chioggia, has entered to take part as first signer in absolute of MEDPorts Association, the organism that reunites the Harbour Authorities and the euro-Mediterranean harbour agencies to the aim to take advantage of the opportunities of a intra-Mediterranean coordination in the development of the internal traffics and/or with the Far East.

In particular, the association pursues the objective to establish new stable and competitive logistic corridors, to characterize new broken marine to the center of the Mediterranean that are very connected with the internal areas and to construct an able economic community to answer itself to the great world-wide challenges to the service of the fluidity of the commercial exchanges.

Moreover, between the main purposes of the association, there is the improvement of the efficiency, the competitiveness and the visibility of the "MEDports" facilitating the combined communication and the common action, let alone the exchange of the best practical between the ports members, strengthening the common formation, acquaintances and the competences.

"The role of the ports of the Mediterranean in the relationships between Europe and Africa and the opportunities of development of the marine routes in consideration of Chinese strategy BRI - it has emphasized the president of the AdSP of Mare Adriatico Settentrionale, Pino Musolino - is more and more crucial. The ports of the Mediterranean, than are found to south of Europe and to north of Africa, today they constitute of the piatteforme logistic key according to the geographic positioning, a kind of obliged passage from and for Asia, to pact but that they are efficient. To be able to create strategies common and to join our forces in order to reach this result is therefore fundamental for our port of call that already is identified which terminal priority of the new Via of the Silk. Already today Venice is connected with a line directed with Far East, the way of Marco Polo already is reopened, can only continue to upgrade making it attention to govern this process and not to endure it".

"In front of huge investments promised from China - it has added Musolino - the ports of the Mediterranean can, indeed they must, to before succeed to make team in order to understand which are our requirements of development and infrastructural potenziamento and then to estimate which of these can be realized in collaboration with China or realized internal and put on of the great international players. The sustainable development must be a priority and will be one of the points hinge on which we will discuss with our new friends of MEDPorts. I am convinced that together we will be able to reach great results, I thank the president of the Christine Cabau association, for this extraordinary opportunity which Venice will not lack to carry own contribution".